[okabat]

Training as a separate activity from normal work activities is not my mental model, and I expect many others. Rather, training should be interwoven in all of the daily activities that allow people with more or differentiated experience to share what they know with the others around them.

Code review is training. Do you consider training one of the primary purposes of code review? In my experience, different teams are highly variable on this. But avoiding bike shedding, explaining context and knowledge without dictating direction, and asking good questions shares knowledge and makes everyone improve.

Postmortems are training. Learning what went wrong and what could be done better next time is close to the definition of training.

Performance / peer reviews (when done well - a rarity) are training - they are a time to step back and think at a higher level about where there's room for improvement and what to concentrate on. Andy Grove explicitly talks about performance reviews as training: "giving reviews is the single most important form of task-relevant feedback"

If your definition of training only includes classrooms, learning budgets, conferences, etc than I encourage you to broaden your view as to what constitutes training. If these venues help you learn, then I hope your organization supports you access them. But don't mistake their absence or their low prominence for a lack of training with an organization

[wccrawford]

In addition to that, answering questions is training.

Sometimes this happens directly, but quite often it's during daily "standups" (which we do sitting, via video, and it's as much socialization as work) we often talk about problems that people are having and give them suggestions. This tends to be most helpful to novice programmers, but we all benefit from it sometimes.

And assigning reasonable tickets is training, too. We also start out our junior programmers with easy bugfix tickets and give them plenty of time to explore the code, answering a ton of questions. Then we give them gradually larger projects as they show they can handle them.